
Event Details
Sun, June 05, 2016
17:00 – 18:00
Limonaia
VILLA LA PIETRA
Via Bolognese 120
50139 Firenze - ITALIA
Villa La Pietra’s The Season and the Sacro/Profano series of Salon/Sanctuary Concerts open with EROS ΕΡΩΣ, a program that honors the inspiration of the Renaissance through a performance of ancient Greek Lyric poetry, created and performed by Ensemble Melpomen.
The Florentine Camerata looked to Athenian dramatists in their creation of opera, and Renaissance thinkers resurrected the Greek philosophers in their pursuit of a “new” paradigm. This theatrical concert of reconstructed treasures gives voice to such varied characters as Sappho, Anacreaon, Theognis, Solon, and Mimnermos, scanning the range of expression at the dawn of humanism.